Fact checked by Nick Blackmer The COVID-19 variant XEC, which has been spreading across Europe, now accounts for 17% of cases ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have made a significant breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19 with the development of ...

1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2. The options include the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and ...

Over the last few years, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, has undergone significant changes, evolving from the ...

The XEC variant is the latest COVID-19 variant that’s been tracked around the world. “It’s one of the Omicron variants and it seems to be reasonably contagious,” says William Schaffner ...

Since 2020, COVID-19 has surged across the nation and the world. With variants like Omicron, Delta, Alpha and more, this ...

The KP.3.1.1 variant, part of the Omicron family, has been the strain dominating the country and was the only major variant increasing in proportion nationally in August. The Nowcast data tracker ...

After a year, omicron still driving COVID surges amid holiday season The omicron variant is driving U.S. COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just in time for the holiday season.

The CDC's Nowcast data tracker, which displays COVID-19 estimates and projections for two-week periods, reflected that the KP ...

The new vaccines are nearly identical to their predecessors, except that they now target JN.1-lineage variants of omicron ...

Driven by the early approval of its updated COVID-19 vaccine, BioNTech far exceeded analysts’ expectations in the third ...